onwealth Games: Fred Wright, Anna Henderson win the time trial silver and Geraint Thomas wins bronze
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Geraint Thomas, from Wales, won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games after crashing during the first stages of the men’s cycling time trial. Fred Wright, England took silver.
Wright finished 26.28 seconds slower than Rohan Dennis, an Australian who won the race in 46 minutes 21.24 seconds.
Thomas was 28.49 seconds behind Dennis when he crashed and lost over 30 seconds in the first kilometres.
An earlier time, Anna Henderson from England won silver in the women’s time trial.
Grace Brown, Australia’s Grace, won gold in 40 minutes 05.20 secs. Henderson was 33.35 secs behind. Georgia Williams, New Zealand, came third.
Thomas’s bid for gold is derailed by a crash
Thomas came into this race having finished third in the Tour de France in July. He was looking to improve on his bronze medal from eight years ago in Glasgow.
The 2018 Tour de France winner fell about half an hour after he hit a barrier. This may have concerned Dennis, the two-time world champion in time trials.
Wright was just three seconds faster than Wright on the 37km course.
Both the pair will compete in Sunday’s road race, where Thomas won gold in 2014. with former world champion Mark Cavendish
Scotland’s John Archibald placed sixth, with Owain Doull from Wales and Darren Rafferty from Northern Ireland in seventh and eighth, respectively.
England’s Dan Bigham placed 12th after a late crash caused his bike to get stuck in a barrier.
Lowden posted the 12th fastest time in the women’s event.
Henderson: ‘It’ was huge’
Henderson, from England, said that her performance was “superior” after she won silver in the women’s time trial.
Henderson said, “You don’t realize you’re at home Games until everyone shouts your name and shouts for England.”
“I thought, “Oh wow, I’m in England so I better move!” ”
“It was awesome – it made me feel great on the bike. ”
The race was held over a 28.8km course that started and ended in Wolverhampton’s West Park.
The women’s event had 36 participants, but there were five withdrawals due to illness, including Ashleigh Moolman Pasio from South Africa.
Pasio had been eighth at the Tokyo Olympics. She was supposed to be the last rider. However, Brown took her place and she rode flawlessly, leading at every checkpoint.
Isle of Man duo Lizzie Holden & Becky Storrie finished sixth and seventh, respectively. Elynor Backstedt of Wales was eighth and Anna Shackley of Scotland was 10th.
